FUNCTIONALIST ACCOUNTS OF THE PROCESS OF FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Handbook of Child Language Acquisition

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 221-246

  Rispoli, Matthew ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1163/9789004653023_010     Document Type: Chapter

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